Aug
18
Promontory Financial Settles With New York Regulator
ByCreditCarlo AllegriREUTERS
When New York State’s financial regulator challenged the independence of a top Wall Street consultant, the Promontory Financial Group, the firm threatened to sue, vowing to “litigate the matter and defend our firm against this regulatory overreach.”
On Tuesday, Promontory tried a different approach: compromise.
Promontory — whose founder and chief executive, Eugene A. Ludwig, is a former top banking regulator and a law school friend of Bill Clinton — agreed to admit that its actions on behalf of a big British bank did not meet current consulting requirements, the New York State regulator announced…